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Thursday, May 05, 2016
Group wants Glacier Park helicopter tours permanently grounded
Click on a website Mary T. McClelland
created a few days ago, and you’ll see waves lapping at the shore of
Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. But what you’ll hear is the noise of a helicopter passing overhead. “It
makes you want to turn it off, doesn’t it?” McClelland says. “That’s
sort of the point, because when you’re there, you can’t turn it off.” McClelland this week released an
open letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on behalf of
Friends for a Quiet! Glacier Coalition, which calls for an end to scenic
helicopter tours over the park by 2017. The website, quietglacier.wix.com/coalitioninformation,
is gathering signatures for a petition directed to Jewell, National
Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis and Secretary of Transportation
Anthony Foxx, which asks for just that.“Glacier’s
solitude has been shattered by hundreds of helicopter overflights,”
McClelland’s letter says, “and the incessant noise pollution endured by
wildlife and visitors is destroying what Glacier stands for — the
pinnacle of natural beauty and tranquility.”...more
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